Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: As an enthusiastic TIME reader, I do want to congratulate you on the limitation decision and your determination to keep TIME the short, snappy publication it now is. CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH West Palm Beach, Fla. Sirs: Your announcement to the effect that TIME will limit its pages to 80 per issue is wise. The issues have been few and far between during the past five years which I have not cover-to-covered. Incidentally, such a limit makes each advertising page more valuable...
...Liquidation Committee in France, Air Attache to the U. S. Embassy at Paris (the first ever appointed to such a post), Governor of the Aero Club of America, Treasurer of the National Aeronautic Association, an international banker and authority on conditions in the Eastern Baltic Republics, and a West Point graduate retiring from the Army in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 4) That the "onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson) was, in fact, a Captain in the Navy, Chief of the Material Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy Department, and responsible for all Naval aircraft design...
...expected arrival of James Ramsay MacDonald early in October necessitated changes in President Hoover's plans to visit the West next month. It was an- nounced at the White House that the President would not be able to go to Texas for the celebration at El Paso of the 75th anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase.? Instead he will probably make a trip to Cincinnati and Louisville for the formal opening of locks on the Ohio River. Oct. 21 he is due in Detroit to help Henry Ford and the Edison Pioneers celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the electric light...
Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
Born of mountaineer stock at Breeding, Ky., lanky, humorous "Mel" Traylor also went west, to a two-fisted section of Texas, where he clerked by day, studied law at night and in 1909 became president of the First National Bank of Ballinger...